Kozhikode: The World Bank has approved a $ 352-million credit for the National Dairy Support Project.

Additional power of 75,000 MW to be generated in five years

Union Minister of State for Power K.C. Venugopal said here on Monday that work on the Mysore-Kozhikode transmission line would start soon as the project had secured the final environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Forests and Environment.

The State Government has given the nod for installing garbage processing units based on modern technology in all the districts of the state. Local bodies will have to provide the necessary land and the full expenditure of installation of units will be borne by the State Government.

Briefing mediapersons on the cabinet decisions here on Thursday, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that the government had succeeded in identifying four effective models for garbage treatment.

Laying of pipelines for carrying regassified LNG (liquefied natural gas) from Puthuvype to Kochi and beyond is on schedule and no hitch is expected, according to GAIL (India) Limited officials here

The panel, at its sitting here on Monday, called for reports on the encroachments into the Kallai river about which there had been complaints. It also asked the State Pollution Control Board to submit a report on the quality of river water based on scientific tests, in view of complaints about widespread pollution.

To be commissioned in 30 months once land is available

The Oleena Mahila Samajam and Green Kerala Bioscience, both Kozhikode-based organisations, have introduced a novel method for scientific organic-waste processing with the technical support of JMS B

The Suchitwa Mission has recommended setting up at Brahmapuram a mega plant capable of processing about 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste generated daily in Kochi corporation areas and nearby mun

KOCHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has formulated 50 projects which will be implemented in the state soon, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju has said.

To tap the alternative energy sources, cost-effective solar power panels will be installed in the prisons in the State, according to Deputy Inspector-General of Prisons (North Zone) K. Radhakrishnan.